selection or retention of those only whose physical condition is such as to maintain or improve the military efficiency of the service if admitted or retained therein; and it shall pass upon the competency, from a professional standpoint, of all men of the Hospital Corps for enlistment, enrollment, and promotion by means of examination conducted under its supervision or by such forms as it may prescribe.

The Bureau of Medicine and Surgery shall recommend to the Bureau of Navigation the complement of Medical Department personnel for hospitals and hospital ships, and shall recommend and have information as to the assignment and duties of medical officers, dental officers, and Hospital Corps men. It shall be charged with the administration of the Nurse Corps, and shall have power to appoint and remove all nurses, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Navy.

It shall require for and have control of the preparation, reception, storage, care, custody, transfer, and issue of all supplies of every kind used in the Medical Department for its own purposes; and shall have charge of the civilian force employed at naval hospitals, medical supply depots, medical laboratories, the Naval Medical School, and at all technical schools for the education or training of Medical Department personnel.

It shall approve the design of hospital ships in so far as relates to their efficiency for the care of the sick and wounded, and shall provide for the internal organization and administration of such vessels.

The arrangements for care, transportation, and burial of the dead shall be up fer the jurisdiction and control of the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.

BUREAU OF SUPPLIES AND ACCOUNTS

The duties of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts comprise all that relates to the purchase (including the preparation and distribution of schedules, proposals, contracts, and bureau orders and advertisements connected therewith, and the Navy's list of acceptable bidders), reception, storage, care, custody, transfer, shipment, issue of and accounting for all supplies and property of the Naval Establishment except medical supplies (but including their purchase) and supplies for the Marine Corps.

The Paymaster General of the Navy has direction of the naval clothing factories and their cost of operation.

He has supervision over requisitions and service covering provisions, clothing, and canteen stocks; allotments under S. and A. appropriations and the accounting for allotments for ships under all appropriations; the preparation and issuance of allowance lists for ships and S. and A. material; the disposition of excess stocks accumulated at the various yards and the upkeep of naval supply account stock; he recommends to the Bureau of Yards and Docks the interior arrangements of storehouses ashore and to the Bureau of Construction and Repair the character of the permanent galley fittings and interior storeroom arrangement of all naval vessels.

He has direction of the sale of condemned, salvaged, and scrap, or other materials, and the transfer thereof from point to point.

He procures all coal, fuel oil, and gasoline for Navy use, including expenses of transportation, leased storage, and handling the same, and water for all purposes on board naval vessels, and the chartering of merchant vessels for transportation purposes.

The Paymaster General of the Navy is charged with the procurement and loading of cargoes of supply ships, colliers, and tankers, and with the upkeep and operation of fueling plants.

He has charge of all that relates to the supply funds for Navy disbursing officers and the payment for articles and services for which contract and agreements have been made by proper authority.

The Paymaster General of the Navy is responsible for the keeping of the property and money accounts of the Naval Establishment, including accounts of all manufacturing and operating expenses at navy yards and stations; the direction of naval cost accounting and the audit of property returns from ships and stations.

He prepares the estimates for the appropriations for freight, fuel, provisions, and clothing for the Navy, the maintenance of the supply, accounting, and disbursing departments at navy yards and stations, and for the pay of all officers and enlisted men of the Navy.

He originates the details to duty of officers of the supply corps.

BUREAU OF AERONAUTICS

The duties of the Bureau of Aeronautics comprise all that relates to designing, building, fitting out, and repairing naval and Marine Corps aircraft, their accessories and equipment, except that the bureau recommends to each bureau of the Navy Department the nature and priority of experimental development and production of aeronautic material under that bureau's cognizance. When designs are to be prepared for new types of aircraft, the Bureau of Aeronautics has duties, within its cognizance, similar to those assigned to other bureaus of the department. The bureau furnishes information covering all aeronautic planning, operations, and administration that may be necessary to the administration of the Navy Department. The bureau makes recommendations to the Bureau of Navigation for the details of officers for duty in connection with aeronautics, for the distribution in the various ratings of the enlisted personnel required for aeronautic activities, and on all matters pertaining to aeronautic training; to the Major General Commandant, United States Marine Corps, for the details of officers for duty in connection with aeronautics, and for the distribution in the various ratings of enlisted personnel required for aeronautic activities; also relative to all matters pertaining to aeronautic training. The bureau has cognizance over the policy of the upkeep and operation of:

(a) Naval aircraft factories;

(b) Naval aeronautic experimental stations.

The experimental and test work of the other bureaus of the Navy Department affecting aeronautic material is made in accordance with requests of the Bureau of Aeronautics. The installation of ordnance material in aircraft and the repairs of public works utilities at aeronautic shore establishments, as well as their upkeep and operation, are under the cognizance of the Bureau of Aeronautics.

OFFICE OF THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL OF THE NAVY

The Judge Advocate General of the Navy shall, in accordance with the statute creating his office, have cognizance of all matters of law arising in the Navy Department and shall perform such other duties as may be assigned him by the Secretary of the Navy.

The duties of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy shall be to revise and report upon the legal features of and to have recorded the proceedings of all courts-martial, courts of inquiry, boards of investigation and inquest, boards for the selection of officers for promotion, boards for the examination of officers for retirement and promotion in the naval service, and boards for the examination of candidates for appointment as officers in the naval service other than midshipmen; to prepare charges and specifications for courts-martial and the necessary orders convening courts-martial in cases where such courts are ordered by the Secretary of the Navy; to prepare court-martial orders promulgating the final action of the reviewing authority in general courts-martial cases, except those of enlisted men convened by officers other than the Secretary of the Navy; to prepare the necessary orders convening courts of inquiry and boards for the examination of officers for promotion and retirement, for the selection of officers for promotion, for the examination of all candidates for appointment as officers in the naval service other than midshipmen, and in the Naval Reserve, where such courts and boards are ordered by the Secretary of the Navy, and to conduct all official correspondence relating to such courts and boards.

It shall also be the duty of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy to examine and report upon all questions relating to rank and precedence, to promotions and retirements, and to the validity of the proceedings in court-martial cases; all matters relating to the supervision and control of naval prisons and prisoners, including prisoners of war; the removal of the mark of desertion; the correction of records of service of the naval personnel; certification of discharge in true name; pardons; the interpretation of statutes; references to the General Accounting Office; proceedings in the civil courts by or against the Government or its officers; preparation of advertisements, proposals, and contracts; insurance; patents; the sufficiency of official contracts and other bonds and guarantees; claims by or against the Government; and to conduct the correspondence respecting the foregoing duties, including the preparation for submission to the Attorney General of all questions which the Secretary of the Navy may direct to be submitted.

It shall be the duty of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy to examine and report upon all bills and resolutions introduced in Congress and referred to

the department for report; to draft all proposed legislation arising in the Navy Department; and to conduct the correspondence in connection with these duties. The study of international law is assigned to the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy. He shall examine and report upon questions of international law as may be required.

He shall be charged, under the special instructions of the Secretary of the Navy, with the searching of titles, purchase, sale, transfer, and other questions affecting lands and buildings pertaining to the Navy, and with the care and preservation of all muniments of title to land acquired for naval uses.

HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

The Major General Commandant of the Marine Corps is responsible to the Secretary of the Navy for the general efficiency, discipline, and operations of the corps in all branches of its activities. The headquarters is organized as the office of the Major General Commandant and three staff departments.

The assistant to the Major General Commandant has general supervision over recruiting; assignments and complements of officers and enlisted men; constabulary detachments; passports; transportation on naval transports; Marine Corps Institute and post schools (other than military).

The director of operations and training, under the Major General Commandant, has cognizance of military intelligence, operations, training, matériel, and aviation.

The adjutant and inspector has general supervision of claims of officers and enlisted men, courts-martial, courts of inquiry, investigations, etc.; historical archives; inspections; post exchanges; appointment, examination, promotion, reduction, and retirement of commissioned and warrant officers; military records; discharges, promotion, and reduction of noncommissioned officers; casualties; insignia.

The paymaster has supervision of questions relating to pay, allowances, bonus, gratuities, mileage, travel expenses, allotments, insurance, etc., to officers and enlisted men; deficiency and other estimates for pay, etc.

The quartermaster has supervision of matters relating to the purchase of military supplies for the Marine Corps, including subsistence, construction material, and labor; pays all expenses of the corps except those pertaining to paymaster's department; has jurisdiction over quarters, barracks, and other public buildings provided for officers and enlisted men, and repairs, alterations, and improvements thereto; vehicles for the transportation of troops and supplies; public animals and their equipment; furnishes means of transportation for movement of troops; prints and issues blank forms for the Marine Corps.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the supervision of public business relating to the General Land Office, Bureau of Reclamation, Geological Survey, Office of Indian Affairs, Office of Education, Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations, and certain hospitals and eleemosynary institutions in the District of Columbia. By authority of the President, the Secretary of the Interior has general supervision over the Government railroad in the Territory of Alaska. He exercises also certain powers and duties in relation to the Territories of Alaska and Hawaii. He was designated custodian of the records and files of the United States Fuel Administration and the Bituminous Coal Commission by Executive orders of July 22, 1919, March 24, 1920, and June 16, 1920, and those of the United States Coal Commission by Executive order of September 13, 1923. The Secretary of the Interior is charged with the adjustment of claims filed under the war minerals relief act (sec. 5, act of March 2, 1919, 40 Stat. 1274) for losses incurred in producing or preparing to produce manganese, chrome, pyrites, or tungsten during the war, and with the supervision of all matters pertaining to the Alaska Road Commission. He is a member of the National Forest Reservation Commission under act of Congress approved March 1, 1911. He is chairman of the Federal Oil Conservation Board, constituted by the President on December 19, 1927. He is a member also of the District of Columbia Permanent System of Highways Commission under act of Congress approved March 2, 1893 (27

Stat. 532), and of the Smithsonian Institution under act of March 12, 1894 (28 Stat. 41). Executive order of February 27, 1931, placed the administration of the government of the Virgin Islands under his supervision. Executive order of June 10, 1933, transferred the functions and personnel of the following agencies to the Department of the Interior: Arlington Memorial Bridge Commission, Public Buildings Commission, Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, National Memorial Commission, Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission, and the Federal Board for Vocational Education.

FIRST ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

The First Assistant Secretary has general supervision over matters concerning the General Land Office, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Geological Survey, Territories of Hawaii and Alaska, and the Soil Erosion Service. His duties relate to the administration and enforcement of the laws enacted by Congress affecting these activities. He also considers proposed legislation relating to matters under his supervision. Duties in connection with the affairs of other bureaus are assigned to him from time to time. In the absence of the Secretary he becomes Acting Secretary.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR

The Assistant Secretary has general supervision over all matters concerning the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Education, Office of National Parks, Buildings, and Reservations, St. Elizabeths Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital, and Howard University; admission, disbarment, and restoration of attorneys and agents to practice before department and bureaus thereof; the Virgin Islands, and the division of subsistence homesteads. The Assistant Secretary also has jurisdiction of matters of a miscellaneous character, such as the approval of the pay roll of the Secretary's office and the signing of contracts under the contingent and stationery appropriations, etc. He also considers proposed legislation pertaining to matters under his supervision. Duties in connection with the affairs of other bureaus are assigned to him from time to time.

CHIEF CLERK

As the chief executive officer of the department and the administrative head of the divisions of the office of the Secretary, the chief clerk has supervision over the clerks and other employees of the department, enforces the general regulations of the department, and has administrative supervision of the buildings occupied by the department. He also supervises, under the direction of the department budget officer, the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations for the Bureau of the Budget, and has general supervision of expenditures from the appropriations for printing and binding and contingent expenses for the department, including stationery and postage on mail addressed to postal-union countries. The detailed work relating to the Territories of Alaska, Hawaii, and the Virgin Islands; accounts and miscellaneous correspondence relating to the Alaska Railroad to corporate sureties on bonds; to contracts and miscellaneous correspondence relating to St. Elizabeths Hospital, Freedmen's Hospital, and Howard University; estimates for and admissions to Columbia Institution for the Deaf; the admission of attorneys and agents to practice and disbarments from practice, and miscellaneous matters are performed in his office. During the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries he may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents.

COMMISSIONER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE

The Commissioner of the General Land Office is charged with the survey management, and disposition of the public lands, the adjudication of conflicting claims relating thereto, the granting of railroad and other rights of way, easements, the issuance of patents for lands, and with furnishing certified copies of land patents and of records, plats, and papers on file in his office. In national forests he executes all laws relating to surveying, protecting, locating, appropriating, entering, reconveying, or patenting of public lands, and to the granting of rights of way amounting to easements.

COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under the supervision of the Secretary of the Interior, has charge of the Indians of the United States, their education,

lands, moneys, schools, and general welfare, and the purchase of supplies in connection therewith; also the education and health administration of the natives of Alaska.

COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION

The Commissioner of Education has charge of the Office of Education, which collects statistics and general information showing the condition and progress of education in the United States and all foreign countries; advises State, county, and local school officers as to the administration and improvement of schools; issues annually a report, a number of bulletins, and miscellaneous publications; issues biennially a survey of education; and administers the endowment fund for the support of colleges for the benefit of agriculture and mechanic arts and the acts relating to cooperation with the States and Territories for the promotion of vocational education and rehabilitation. He is required to make an inspection of Howard University, Washington, D. C., at least once each year, and submit a report to Congress thereon. The commissioner is a member of the Federal Board for Vocational Education and of the Commission on Licensure to Practice the Healing Art in the District of Columbia.

The Federal Board for Vocational Education was created by act of Congress approved February 23, 1917. This act makes continuing appropriations to be expended in the States under State plans for the promotion of vocational education. For the fiscal year 1917-18 the amount appropriated was $1,860,000, and the appropriation increased each year until in 1925–26 it reached $7,367,000, which sum was provided annually thereafter. An act approved February 5, 1929, authorized an additional appropriation of $250,000 for agriculture and $250,000 for home economics for the fiscal year 1930, and for each year thereafter, for four years, a sum exceeding by $250,000 the appropriation of the preceding year for the promotion of vocational education in each of these two fields. The money appropriated under these acts is to be allotted to the States on the basis of rural, farming, urban, or total population as designated in the acts, for the promotion of vocational education in agriculture, trades and industries, and home economics, and for the preparation of teachers of vocational subjects. Utilization of allotments is authorized upon condition that for each dollar of Federal money expended the State or local community, or both, shall expend at least an equal amount for the same purpose.

The duties imposed upon the Board by the national vocational education act are of a twofold character: On the one hand, as representative of the Government the Federal Board cooperates with State boards for vocational education in promoting vocational education; and, on the other, as a research agency it is required to make, or cause to have made, studies, investigations, and reports to aid the States in developing their programs. As representative of the Government, it examines the plans submitted by the State boards, presenting in the case of each State the scheme of vocational education to be conducted by the State, and approves plans found to be in conformity with the provisions and purposes of the act. It ascertains annually whether the several States are using or are prepared to use the money received by them in accordance with the provisions of the Statute and each year it certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury the States which have complied with the provisions of the act, together with the amount which each State is entitled to receive. It is expressly required to make studies, investigations, and reports dealing with occupational processes and educational requirements for workers and apprentices, and with problems of administration of vocational schools and of courses of instruction in vocational subjects, in the several fields of agricultural, trade and industrial, home economics, and commercial employment.

A large part of the work of the Board's staff members consists of advising with and rendering direct assistance to State boards for vocational education in developing more effective and efficient programs of vocational education.

The Federal Board for Vocational Education is designated as the administrative agency, also, of the civilian vocational rehabilitation act, approved June 2, 1920. By this act the Federal Government agrees to cooperate with the States in rehabilitating and restoring to remunerative employment any persons disabled in industry or otherwise. Under this act the duties imposed upon the Federal Board include the making of rules and regulations appropriate for carrying out the purposes of the act; cooperation with the States in the promotion of vocational rehabilitation of disabled persons; examination of State plans and their approval, if in conformity with the provisions of the act; and cooperation in this work with public and private agencies. The Federal Board must ascertain annually whether the States are properly using Federal funds and must certify,